Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

Skyler Ferrante discovered that the util-linux wall command did not filter escape sequences from command line arguments. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6719-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: bsdutils - 1:2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 No subscription required fdisk - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libblkid-dev - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libblkid1 - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libfdisk-dev - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libfdisk1 - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libmount-dev - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libmount1 - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libsmartcols-dev - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libsmartcols1 - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 libuuid1 - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 mount - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 rfkill - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 util-linux - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 util-linux-locales - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 uuid-dev - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 uuid-runtime - 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.5 No subscription required.

Fixed VMware Products and Versions

• Cflinuxfs4
  • 1.84.0 or greater
• Jammy Stemcells
  • 1.423 or greater
• Isolation Segment
  • 4.0.24+LTS-T or greater
  • 5.0.14 or greater
  • 6.0.4+LTS-T or greater
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 4.0.24+LTS-T or greater
  • 5.0.14 or greater
  • 6.0.4+LTS-T or greater
• Operations Manager
  • 3.0.26+LTS-T or greater

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6719-1

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6719-1

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6719-1

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24702

History

2024-03-27: Initial vulnerability report published.